Parables for school and home .. . ntaught all this may be said to have good manners,just as children have who wipe their feet before KINDNESS TO ANIMALS 19 going into the house; who do not throw rubbishon the floor or into the street; who are not greedyat table nor late to school; who keep their clothesneat and do not soil or tear their books; who arerespectful to their parents and teachers ; who saythank, you and if you please. Childrenwho can do these things without being told everytime are like the clergymans horse which turnedto the right on Sunday of his own accord. Ifyou ask a child why
Parables for school and home .. . ntaught all this may be said to have good manners,just as children have who wipe their feet before KINDNESS TO ANIMALS 19 going into the house; who do not throw rubbishon the floor or into the street; who are not greedyat table nor late to school; who keep their clothesneat and do not soil or tear their books; who arerespectful to their parents and teachers ; who saythank, you and if you please. Childrenwho can do these things without being told everytime are like the clergymans horse which turnedto the right on Sunday of his own accord. Ifyou ask a child why he is neat or polite or punc-tual or respectful, he will say, Because mymother—or my father or my teacher—bids me. So the horse obeys the will of hismaster; but it is nothing to him whether he istold to draw the carriage to the station or to thechurch. The church, and the ministers sermontoo, are nothing to him; nor can he understand(because he cannot talk) what is meant by thesaying, The merciful man is merciful to The Lion of Lucerne. Ill VANDALISM. MANY centuries aero a VANDALISM MANY centuries ago a little Italian shepherdboy, named Giotto, was tending his flocksin the fields, and amusing himself by drawing ona slate with a sharp stone for a pencil. With onesweep of his hand he drew a circle as perfect asif it had been made with a pair of compasses, orwith a pencil at the end of a string of which theother end is fastened to a pin. It is said that agreat painter passing by saw Giotto make thiswonderful round O, and took him from his sheepand trained him to be a great artist also. All children like to mark on a slate or a pieceof paper, and are tempted by any smooth surface,such as the plaster on the side of a room or theclapboards of a house. A boy with a piece ofchalk or of charcoal will go up and down thestreet, and you may track him by the white orblack line he leaves on wall and fence. In schoolthe shiny top of his new desk seems to him madefor scratching
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